Police maintain tight vigil in Chennai on counting day – Times of India

CHENNAI: To ensure law and order in the city on counting day Chennai police assigned at least one joint commissioner of police-rank officer for each counting centre in the city. Officers were tasked with securing the perimeter of the counting centres and monitor unauthorised movement of people.
Election control room officials at the city police commissioner office took out 465 patrol bikes and 240 patrol cars to stay updated on the ground situation every five minutes. Commissioner Mahesh Kumar Aggarwal had visited Loyola College on Saturday to review the security arrangements there.
The top brass of the city police visited the counting centres in the city — Queen Mary’s College on Kamarajar Salai, Loyola College at Nungambakkam, Anna University on Sardar Patel Road, and Madras Christian College in Selaiyur.
Mahesh Kumar Aggarwal said, “We have prepared a detailed plan to ensure peaceful counting on Sunday. Our subordinate officers executed our plan effectively and it worked out well.”
The cops blocked vehicular movement from MGR Mausoleum on Anna Salai and Gandhi Statue on Kamarajar Salai, as election counting was being conducted at Queen Mary’s College, and also outside Madras Christian College in Selaiyur.
The election control room received at least 43 distress calls on Sunday. An officer at the control room said, “Most of the callers informed about petty quarrel on the road. In the afternoon, some residents informed the cops that some miscreants were bursting crackers on the street at Royapettah. Another caller claimed that some people on bikes hurled stones at the AIADMK office on Pallappan Street.”
Tamil Nadu police DGP JK Tripathy said there was no untoward incident in the state. He was monitoring the security arrangements in all the 75 counting centres.